Stokley Williams (born July 15, 1967), also known simply as Stokley, is an American musician from St. Paul, Minnesota, best known as the lead singer and studio drummer of the R&B band Mint Condition.

Career

In 2011, Williams was featured on Kelly Price's song "Not My Daddy" from her album Kelly which earned him his first Grammy nomination for Best R&B Performance. In 2017, Williams joined The Revolution on tour, to pay tribute to Prince. Also in 2017, he released his Bluraffe/Concord Records solo debut Introducing Stokley, with production by himself as well as the Philadelphia production team Carvin & Ivan. In 2019, Jam & Lewis' did a joint venture with Bluraffe ent /Perspective Records to release his second solo album, Sankofa. In March 2020, Stokley earned his first number-one solo hit with "She..." reaching the top of the Adult R&B Chart (Billboard) for two consecutive weeks and high radio play on stations such as WAMO, WDAS, & WHUR. In 2024, he was cast as Rick James in Ja'Caryous Johnson's musical stage play, Super Freak: A Rick James Story, set to tour spring of 2024.

Influences

Williams has declared his main influences as being Cliff Alexis Sr., Prince, and Maurice White.

Discography as a session musician

The Boys - The Boys (1990) Sounds of Blackness – The Evolution of Gospel (1991) Karyn White – Ritual of Love (1991) Mo' Money – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992) Janet Jackson – janet. (1993) Johnny Gill – Provocative (1993) Color Me Badd – Time and Chance (1993) Jason's Lyric – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1994) Karyn White – Make Him Do Right (1994) Sounds of Blackness – Africa to America: The Journey of the Drum (1994) J. Spencer – Blue Moon (1995) Solo – Solo (1995) Soultry – Soultry (1995) Janet Jackson – Design of a Decade: 1986–1996 (1995) New Edition – Home Again (1996) Ann Nesby – I'm Here For You (1996) Jesse Powell - Jesse Powell 4.0 – 4.0 (1997) Luther Vandross – One Night with You: The Best of Love, Volume 2 (1997) Jon Secada – Secada (1997) Sounds of Blackness – Time for Healing (1997) How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida'' (1999) Jordan Knight – Jordan Knight (1999) Yolanda Adams – Mountain High...Valley Low (1999) Usher – 8701 (2001) Blu Cantrell – So Blu (2001) Deborah Cox – The Morning After (2002) Toni Braxton – More Than a Woman (2002) Ann Nesby – Put It on Paper (2002) Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Shaheedullah and Stereotypes (2004) Prince – Musicology (2004) Jill Scott- The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) Brother Ali – Us (2009) Tech N9ne – All 6's and 7's (2011) Kelly Price – Kelly (2011) Mint Condition – 7... (2011) Elzhi – Elmatic (2011) Brother Ali – The Bite Marked Heart (2012) The World Famous Tony Williams- King or the Fool (2012) The Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio (2012) U-Nam & Friends – Weekend in L.A (A Tribute To George Benson) (2012) Brian Culbertson – Dreams (2012) Wale – The Gifted (2013) Lil' John Roberts – The Heartbeat (2014) Wale – The Album About Nothing (2015) Boney James – futuresoul (2015) Maysa - Back 2 Love (2015) PJ Morton - Christmas with PJ Morton (2018) ''Zo!

• FourFront'' (2019) After 7 - Unfinished Business (2021)

Discography as a group member

with Mint Condition Meant to Be Mint (1991) From the Mint Factory (1993) Definition of a Band (1996) The Collection (1991–1998) (1998) Life's Aquarium (1999) Livin' the Luxury Brown (2005) Live from the 9:30 Club (2006) E-Life (2008) 7... (2011) Music @ the Speed of Life (2012) Healing Season (2015) with Ursus Minor Nucular (2007) Zugzwang (2010) I Will Not Take "But" for an Answer (2010) What Matters Now (2016) Solo album Introducing Stokley (2017) Sankofa (2021)